Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 20.112
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20.112
Yonder [sun] is indeed the great one.
These are his corresponding names.
He also avoids this name of his.
That which is laid down at the beginning as a two-footed [verse] is man.
Then the three verses that follow are cattle:
the rump is the first, the thighs are two.
Cattle are born facing away;
therefore it is called "having the rump first".
Then the three verses that follow are: the calf first, then the udder, then the man.
Then the three verses that follow are: these two, head and neck, are one, and the final verse is the Upaśa.
It came second behind, as it were; therefore, for a dear person, one should make the final one have two Upaśas.
This indeed is what is granted to them, studied, to be lived upon:
that the calf is first, then the udder, then the man; granted indeed to him is what is studied, to be lived upon.
Now, if he should desire concerning anyone: "May what is studied by him be ungranted, not to be lived upon,"
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he should place the udder first, then the calf, then the man.
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What is studied by him becomes ungranted, not to be lived upon.
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Now, if he should desire concerning anyone: "May he be without cattle," he should omit his calf.
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The calf, indeed, is cattle.
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He excludes him from cattle itself.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit